minimal install too minimal

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Mar 17 21:14:39 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 17:01 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> > > "this used to work" define this.  There hasn't been a "minimal" install
> > > option for a very long time, and since it has come back, when not doing
> > > an network install, the above result has always been the result, so this
> > > isn't a "regression".  You asked for minimal, you got minimal.  Have fun
> > > with it.
> > 
> > 'Minimal' seems to me to relate to the amount of stuff that gets
> > installed. It doesn't seem to offer a legitimate justification for
> > having the stuff that was installed not actually _work_.
> 
> networking should function if you bring it up with ifup, etc. The network
> service isn't started by default, because anaconda does not have code
> to enable/disable services based on package set.

I understand the technical limitation of anaconda which explains why
this does not currently work. I disagree with Jesse's use of the
'minimal' definition to rationalize that it not working is perfectly
normal and okay. I'd say it's rather an undesired but fairly minor
limitation which, in a perfect world, ought to be fixed; it's not the
behaviour we actually desire or intend.
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